Thursday, April 5, 2007

Guggenheims

Guggenheims most closely related to legal history are below. There are a number in history and politics. There appears to be only one to a law professor (moi! -- not for blogging, of course, for a new book project). (A second scholar is listed in the law category: political scientist Michael McCann.) At a time when interdisciplinarity has been questioned in various corners, e.g. here, it is notable that this year and last, the Guggenheims to law professors have gone to interdisciplinary legal scholars (last year: Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Political Science, Columbia University, and David Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University).

2007 -- Guggenheim Fellowships of interest to legal historians:

Lawrence D. Bobo, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor, and Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University: Black and white Americans' views of the new law and order regime.

Daniel Carpenter, Professor of Government, and Director, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University: The American antislavery petition in context.

Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science, University of Southern California: How war made America in the 20th century.

Neil Foley, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin: Civil rights in Texas and the Southwest, 1940-1965.